Can I throw my dog poo in your trash?

[Anonymous]

New dog owners here. DH and I are debating proper dog poo etiquette. While walking, if dog poos, after picking up in baggie and tying in a knot, is it ok to place it in neighbors trash can in alley way? Dog usually goes 1 mile in on 3 mile walk/jog. We are in neighborhood in NW DC so no public trash cans? Forgive me if this is a silly question, but thanks in advance.

[Anonymous]

No, do not throw in someone else's trash can.

[Anonymous]

yes it is fine; trash can is property of the city

[Anonymous]

I do if it's trash day and all the cans are out waiting to be picked up.

[Anonymous]

This is a big point of our discussion on our list serv and everyone agrees it is in bad form and rude.

[Anonymous]

I think it depends on whether you are prepared to defend yourself if someone confronts you. Some won't care, but some will.

[Anonymous]

No, because we are renters and have to clean our trash cans when we move out.

[Anonymous]

I prefer that you don't, and I am a dog owner as well. I also find it weird when people walk up my short driveway to put their dog poip in my can. We are only a block from the nearest public can.

[Anonymous]

When someone throws their dog shit -- yes, bagged up, but it is still their dog's feces -- in my empty trash can that is sitting on the curb until I come home after work and put it in my back yard, I have to fish it out and add it to a larger bag of trash, or else it will stay in my trash can FOREVER. In fact, if my trash can is sitting on the curb on the evening before trash day, and I don't know that this happened, it will be in the bottom of the trash can waiting for me the next day, after my trash has been picked up. The sanitation workers won't take the dog shit. Perhaps because it doesn't belong in the trash stream to begin with.

Would you like someone to do this to your trash can, forcing you to pick-up after them and their dog? I didn't think so. It's your dog, not mine. I don't want anything to do with its feces.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:When someone throws their dog shit -- yes, bagged up, but it is still their dog's feces -- in my empty trash can that is sitting on the curb until I come home after work and put it in my back yard, I have to fish it out and add it to a larger bag of trash, or else it will stay in my trash can FOREVER. In fact, if my trash can is sitting on the curb on the evening before trash day, and I don't know that this happened, it will be in the bottom of the trash can waiting for me the next day, after my trash has been picked up. The sanitation workers won't take the dog shit. Perhaps because it doesn't belong in the trash stream to begin with.

Would you like someone to do this to your trash can, forcing you to pick-up after them and their dog? I didn't think so. It's your dog, not mine. I don't want anything to do with its feces.

Umm, yeah, sure. What else are you supposed to do with it besides throw it away? We have a dog and always throw the poop bags in out own trash can. I've never had the can come back not empty.

[Anonymous]

If can is full (not yet emptied) fine with me. Just make sure it FULLY FITS IN THE CAN. If the can is empty, obviously no. I don't want to house dog poop for a week.

[Anonymous]

Midway though our walk is large business trash bin. I use that, otherwise I'll wait till I'm home.

[Anonymous]

No, do not do this. I pay for trash disposal in my neighborhood, so it's rude and wrong to do it.

It drives me nuts when my neighbors do this, especially when they toss it in the empty trash can that's waiting to be taken in when I get home.

[Anonymous]

Yuck.
Please do not.

Someone did a few weeks back and our trash can smelled like poop for the full week until the next pickup. We don't have pets or anyone in diapers...so this was the lone poop in the can (which is in our garage on non-trash days) and even when garbage was added, yes the poop smell persisted.

Count me as another who feels "your pet, your poop."

[Anonymous]

I do it but I make sure no one sees me.